The Nintendo Wii is the most revolutionary gaming system ever created. With it’s un-restrictive game play and motion sensor remote, you can do practically anything on the Wii. The Nintendo Wii has a number of amazing games that you can play from sports to adventure games. One such game that is taking the gaming world by storm is Wii Music. What makes Wii Music better than any other game? Let’s take a look at what it has to offer.

Wii Music allows you to play in a band with your friends or the computer. You actually have up to six players that are on the screen at any given time. They can play any number of instruments which allows you complete freedom with your music.

Does the Wii Music game require you to have any knowledge of playing these instruments? Absolutely not! In fact, anyone can play as long as they have a sense of rhythm. Actually, you can even play if you don’t have any rhythm, but it probably won’t sound as good.

Wii Music doesn’t require you to get any extra accessories or controllers to play. Some games might require you to actually buy a guitar or a saxophone or whatever else you want to play. Wii Music allows you to play any instrument with nothing more than the Wii remote and Nunchuk. All you do is act like the remote is the instrument and start playing. If you’re playing saxophone, you hold the remote like you would a saxophone and use the keys to create different notes on the saxophone. It’s a great concept and it really comes through wonderfully in the game play.

With Wii Music you can play up to 60 different instruments. This covers just about all of the instruments that you could think of and then some. Want to play a guitar, trumpet, or drums? Wii Music has you covered.

There are also several different game modes that you can engage in. Many of them involve up to six players that you can play with in person or online. This gives you many more game play options to toy with once you get tired of one option. You don’t have to follow any onscreen prompts for the music like other games. You just play along with the music, pushing buttons when you need to or moving your remote accordingly. It is really the most realistic music simulation out there for gaming systems.

If you don’t want to play any instruments, Wii Music has something for you as well. You can go into orchestra mode and simply conduct your band. This will give you control over your very own orchestra. This is a pretty cool feature as well.

Overall, Wii Music has a lot to offer music lovers and gamers of all ages. If you’ve ever wanted to get together with your friends and jam, this game is definitely for you. Even if you don’t have any expensive instruments or musical experience, Wii Music can help you create beautiful music and have a great time in the process.

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Ever since the release of the first game, the Guitar Hero games have taken the world by storm, seeing a spin off franchise Rock band, clothing, toy figures and its own line of plastic Gibson and Fender guitars. But has these games damaged the music business beyond repair, or re-engergised it?

The charges:

• Less people are picking up Guitar Hero rather than real instruments. Some people are never going to pick up a guitar, but it has gotten a few people to try out an instrument for real. So some people who would never even consider playing guitar find themselves doing just that. With some ‘musos’ saying it is stopping people playing guitar might as well claim that about all video games.
• It’ll never match playing a real gig. It may be the nearest thing to playing onstage that some people ever get. All video games transfer the player to a scenario where they can live a life as a ninja, football player and thanks to Guitar hero, a rock star. Sure, Guitar hero players might never know the joy of rocking out with guitars onstage, but then, thats there loss.
• The music industry will suffer because of Guitar hero. When the game was first anounced, the record companies were scared about music sales going down- as usual. But in truth, the exact opposite has happened. The game has given players the chance to hear music they might not have discovered otherwise, and gives the bands involved more exposure. The latest version, Guitar hero: Metallica, is going to bring the metal band to an entirely new generation of kids who’ve never heard them before. Metallica certainly arent the only band to jump on this, as AC/DC and Aerosmith has done this as well, with Van Halen also about to release their own guitar hero game.

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